Right from the beginning of Ira Levin’s This Perfect Day, we learn of a world that is chillingly uniform and impossibly pleasant. There is no war, no hunger, no turmoil of any kind; every single person seems to greatly enjoy their simple lives. Alas, the day could never truly be perfect, and we join the protagonist through a four-part journey of continually seeking out the truth and desperately trying to liberate humanity.

In This Perfect Day, not only have...